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HEPL'S J RAL Vol. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21,1895 No. 10. y CAT .A A A0 V i ~ * OPYIG'4r. "01 was -ridin to camhp-arter nlav in posted the relief, and comin along the road-it was the road 01 was com in along. Oi-Oi-colonol, it was so dark none of yo could have soon yor hand. before yor face." The corporal stopped and gave evidence of sinking on the floor. "Well, go on." "There was somethin black in the road or by the side of it. 01 stopped to listen. Then 01 thought some one might be tamperin with the line mind ye, 01 only thought it-and Oi called on wholver it was to surrender. Thou 01 heard a 'get up,' and whativor it was dashed off. 01 followed it as fast as ivor 01 could, oallin on 'em to stop and firin mo Colt. Divil a bit did any one stop. " The corporal paused again. It looked as if he were not going to get any fur ther. "Go on, my man." "Well, then we came to the camp of General - 's division, and I was halt ed by the guards, while what 0i had seen got ahead. So 01 lost sight of it entirely.'? "Proceed." "Well, wasn't it the fault of the guards stoppin n and lettin the oth or go on, and no fault of mine?" "Go on. " "What's the use of goin on? 0i lost sight of fVhat was tamperin with the wires." "But you overtook it." "How can Oiswear itwas the samo?" Thero was a smile on the faces of those present. Tho questioner seemed puzzl ad at the corporal's device to avoid testifying against the prisonor. "Did you not rido on and overtake what you had seen?" "Divil a bit.'' "I know better. You went on and found something in the road. What did you find?" "01 didn't find what Oi'd soon." "What had you seen?" "Didn't 0i tell yo it was so dark that 01 couldn't see anything?" "'that won't do, corporal. You cor tainly followed something. Now, on coming up with it, what did you find 16 to be?" ''I wasn't what Oi followed. That, whativor it was, had gone out with the mornin light. 01 rookon it was some thing ghostly. " "Nonsonso. Did you not find the prisoner lying in the grass?" "01 did, " replied the witness, as if his heart would break, and ho again showed signs of collapse. "And you had reason to believe it was the person driving the buggy you followed?" "01 didn't see any buggy. It was so dark' ' ''Wll"--impatiently-''the person driving whatever it was you saw." "How could 01 know that?'' "It was natural to infer that, there being a horse and buggy near, the pris oner bad been driving it. " ''There was no buggy.'' "Well, the pices." "Now 01 wvould ask the court, " said Ratigan, steadying himself to impress the members with the probability of his position, "if the person or wvhatlver it was 01 saw tampoiin with the wire moightent have turned off con another road and 01 suddenly lighted on this "That'll do, corporal. You may step out and give the next witness your place.'' The next witness was an officer fromi the camp to which the pr""nor had first been taken after her capauro. Ho testified that upon a proposition to search her she had voluntarily produced the dispatches, which were shown to him in court, and he identified them as the same as those she had given up. A reading of those dispatches was called for, and they wvoro read. In addition to those Miss Baggs doci-. phored when at the F"ain plantation woero two others, wvhich wvere as follows: CnIAwPIIIH SiII1NOR, (Ga., Sept. 141, 1868. Mobile Burton, you wh~en on hasn fromu other bob from ro-enforcedl Quaidroonu count us that to Wet applause will enn your undoubtedly con tury pobi1ts orange iHunjamain and buion coming we join telographs. Pinned to this telogram was a papor bearimg an attempt at explanation in the prisoner's handwyritinig: To liurton (Probably itrnside) on your comning can wo count heecan we count on your comuing? Atelo e(some Person, probably the signer) tlygtphs athtQarn(po Potts readly we result co SeBpt. --, 1808. ed goes Jack all badly rapidly ontusck seatrao 2 the twontieth and doodle Dy sallta nte / ~* ~but well plaster Arabia are up shold uresoint * dread the concentrato et b ho ebyhould urn enemy closing we to,. hul u There was no attempted oeplanation with this telegram. Either thle prisonier ~'had made no headway with it, or she '9'' had not sufflent time, Probably both, *though it was more difficult to deci'. *~ ~ pher than any of the othlors. These telegrams had been sent to gon oral lloadquartors and an interpretation of them furnished, which was read to the conrt: OaAwii-srr SPRnNo~s, Ga., Sept. 14, 1808. To Burnsido: Hlallock telegraphs that you will joinu us. o n eon we cunt on your coming? Bragg 4 5 ndoubtedly been re-enforced from Vir ~ Wis andl other points. ,' osEoRANs. (ORAwrrn SPnINGs, Ga., Sept. 10, 1808. ~ ~o Secretary of War: goes well. Wc are badly separated, but uu~up rapidly. It the enemy should at iin our present scattered condition, 2! 4 dread the result. But by the present ,o shall be concentrated and ready 01 M IT~CHEL. j. -A 0 0OQ A fe g, V94 BY aM.RECAN PRESS ASSOCOATION. The reading of those dispatches pro- % ducod an impression on the court very s unfavorable to the prisoner. She had t held the very life of the army in her- h hands. Had she got through the lines o with these two oiphers and their inter- f pretations she would have supplied the t enemy with such information as would a put an end to all uncertainty and insure a an attack on the Army of the Cumber- h land before it could be concentrated or fi supported by other troops. This would have resulted in its annihilation. 11 Thero was really no defense to make, n and the defending counsel simply placed t his client on the morcy of the court, T hoping that, being a woman, death m might not be the penalty. The room n was oloared and the verdict considered. t The court were not long ii convicting i; the acused of being a spy and amena- I: blo .to the treatment of spies, but as to g the punishment there was a great di- t versity of opinion. Some thought that a imprisonment in a northern penitenti- a ary would be a sufficient atonement. v There were those who argued that this y would not have any effect to deter oth- t ers from similar acts at a time when t the army was in so critical a situation. Then the importance of the dispatches c Miss Baggs was attempting to deliver t to the enemy, the fact that their deliv- I ej t p t N Ir V Ratigan addresses the court. cry would have given any general prompt to take advantage of an army's weakness an opportunity to destroy the Army of the Cumberland, noted serious ly upon those who were disposed toward clemency. Some members of the court d argued that the prisoner had acted as a ( man and must take the consequences, the same as if she were a man. There was none but knew that in this view of the case she would be immediately hanged. The disputants soon ranged themselves on opposite sides, the one in d favor of an extreme course, the other of t a life imprisonment. Bub the critical position of the army and the enormity of the offense finally won over the lat ter, and the case was compromised by the convicted woman being sentenced. to be shot at sunrise the next morning. The verdict and sentence were approved h within two hours of the finding, and Colonel Mark Maynard was ordered to 0 Bee that the sentence was duly carried U out. hi n CHAPTER XVI. d "YOU SHALL NOT DIE."1 Scarcely had the court martial brought t< [n a verdict when an order came to it Jolonel Maynard to move his brigade fr toross the Ohickamauga creek by way w tf Dyers' bridge, to be ready early the le !ollowing day to make a reconnoissance F? beyond the Pigeon nounitains. He or- 'n Sored an ambulance for his prisoner to ki tide In, since ho had no option but to IV bake her with him. The distance to be it braversed was but a few miles, and al bhough It was nearly sunset before the' 3onmmand broke camp It was barely dark I when the teuts were pitched in the new II situation. Luckily a house was found for the reception of the prisoner, and si the headquarters of the colonel comi- b mnanding were established near it. 01 As soon as Maynard's tent was pitch- c1 xd ho went insidoe and shut himself up p: trom every one. The mnatter of the life bi In' his keeping, his desire to save his a prisoner, the impossibility of his doing tI so except by betraying his trust and con- ui niving at her escape, were weighing ter- g: r~ibly upon him. A desperate struggle tc between his duty as an officer and his b] repulsion at carrying out a sentence hi upon a womnan wvhich had once boen h passed upon,. himself was driving him b: well nigh distracted. One thing was " certain-ho could not save Miss 13aggs e: without sacrificing himself, Hie was s< ready to sacrifice himself if ho could do t< so honorably. He might even consider ci the matter of doing that which ho had ti no right to do, but since the devil may care days of his scouting a now world it had Opened to him, which mado the w~ struggle more complicated than it would g then have been. Hie had a wife whom 1F he loved devotedly, and any obloquy ho LI might take upon himself must be shared r< by her and his son. Ho knew that if he n could conceive It to bo his daty, or if i he could mako up his mind without the d approval of his conscience to connive e. at the prisoner's oscape, he would have ih a fair chance of success. lie was charg- tI ed with the excution, and this would T give him power over her persnn. On 0: 4he Other hand, such a violation of trust a Was too horrible evon for considoration, and if he did not so regard it the ponm- a loayhe must suffer-disgrace, if not f deat~~~..*eid well nigh kill his wife. e sio ma long While he revolved these con toideisin hsmind and at last came 14 tuo adonf i would suffer thme tor- h wue o caryinyot the sentence. Ho wife and hfe son. -outyhid He had scarcely arrived at this doecI. sion when a message came from the I prisoner asking to see him. ' The~ racking of mai ,,,lo at l, i 'mon na( ooon partially auayeu Uy L DOision, canio back to him with t immons. Ho dreaded an intorvio 10 folt that tho rosolution ho h )rmed was of too little inhere ,rongth to warrant placing hims udor so great a temptation. But I einory took him back to the jail 'hich ho had boon confined on tho c l' his own intended execution at Chi mnooga, and ho thought how he woi awo regarded any one who would rofu im1 such a request at such a timo. ot up and walked over to the hou 'hero the prisoner was confined. He paused a few moments before o )ring, in order to colloot himself, th 'alked slowly up the stops. The gun 'ood at attention and brought his pie ) a "present, " but Maynard did not s im, did not return his salute. Ho op< fi the door, entered the house and in >w mi;Atou was in a room in whi io, prisoner was confined. She -% banding by a window. As he enter lio turned and stood with her ha anging clasped before her, her sorro al eyes fixed steadily upon him. "Colonel Maynard, " she said, ave sent for you to ask you to doli, ly last messages. I onco mot you io house of one who is dear to yo 'here I received sholter from the stoi Phich raged without, but which v othing to me beside another evil ti ireatened mo. I was soro pressed a i great danger of capture. The wom i that house-an elderly lady, a you irl who visited there and your wife yok we in at a great risk to the )lves. Your wife certainly had inu t stake, for your honor might be : olved. I have sent for you now to e ou to say to them that I have troasui ieir remembrance and their kindni me." She waited a moment for him to v 3pt the trust. Sho might have wait .11 the orack of doom without a rep: [e had no power to utter a word. : mply bowed. "I desire also to intrust this koopsa you, to be sent to my brother. " She took a lookot from about her no id hold it up before him. On it y %intod a miniature of a young man ke uniform of a Confoderato offlc [aynard looked at it and started bad ith a cry, as if piorood with a redl on. "Ho-he is" "My brother." "Oh, God!" He staggered to t all and leaned against it, shivering. "You know him, colonel. There is eoessity for deceit now. I have lo nown the singular circumstances ti irround you and him-that you b( >vod the same woman; that you woi "And that twico-twico ho gave -my life?" "That ho never told me." "Ah, he never told you that?" ropL laynard, a kind of wonder in his ton "When at Mrs. Fain's plantation iseovored under whoso roof I was a ired. Your wife had novor seen n ad I determined that it would be - )r all that I should not make mys nown. " Maynard stood in amazement at th ovelopments, in horror at the sit1 .on as he now know it to be. "And you are the sister of Camei 'itz Hugh?" "I am. I am Carolino Fitz Hugh. " You shall not dio. " When Colonel Maynard spoke th 'ords, there was a grandour in his to: is figure, the lines of his countonan io light in his eye, strangely inoonsi 2t with a resolution lie had made I cement before they woere uttered. aid en the instant reversed his docisi ado not ten minutes before to do I city, in the ordinary acceptance hat that duty was. He had dotermin save the woman before himn, even were necessary to take upon hims< r greater ignominy than the death bioh she was sentenced. There was I nce between them, during which Ml Ltz Hugh stood looking at himii in a iration, mingled with inquiry. S iew that sonmc secret charm was ork within, but she did not know wh wan. "How can my death be prevented?' "I amn charged wvith your oxecutic wvill take you to your lines myself ti ght." What was that subtle influence,j ranger than battalions of infantry ittorios of artillery, which gave it io not present, unconscious of his po , to hold Mark Maynard over a pro ce and to cast him into a black gi ilow? Was it circumstances that h year before led Fitz Hugh to acc< 10 very part Maynard was now call 'on. to play? Was It love that h von Maynard the bride Fitz Hugh w have possessodi? Was it sonic invi e fiend that had mfidoMaynardl a rt r of that bride from the man to wh<c twice owed his life and was m1, inging on his plunishmnont? TIh< ero indirect causes, but they canti ~plain that inexpressible, intangil use of honor which will lead a ma speakc paradoxically, to commit 11mo and sacrifice himself at the sar mio for aniother. Tho expresion en Miss Fitz Hugmh co as sho heard Maynard spea1k vor hiich would save her fromi death am ve her liberty underwent a cJhang or a momnit after thiey wore spiok< core was a delighted look, but cas a: alized what they meant to the ni ho would save her it w~as tranusform' ito all expression which can only iscrib~ed as bordering on the confnn angel land. TIhoro wvas a holy loi her eyes, a radianco of p~urity fro o0 soul expressedl in cvory featur hero was the supoerhuimn attribute ioosing death hofore life and liber Sthe price of wrong. "No, colonel, we Fitz IUnghs oann acopt sacrifice, and especially wron 'omi others. We give; we are not ci istomiod to receive." Maynard stood gazing at liar with >0k as if in refusing the sacrifice a y1l stabbed hini. "What then," lie said at last, "cam a?" "Send the news of my condition, cy expectodl"-she shuddered at pi auneing the word-"xecution to a nos. K~nowing that I am condemnc wv can tbiw what innuen,. h in,, 11 be ablo to savd me." he "It will avail nothigg." f. "Try it. Fate, luok,Providenco works ad strangely at times. Lot us push on and nt leave the rest to a higher power." Af The colonel looked at his watch. "It ifs Is now half past 9. We are but a fow' in miles from the Confederate lines. Your vo brother is" it- "In --'a cavalry division and on Id the Confoderato right. I hoard from so him only a fow days ago. He was then 10 at Ringold. " SO "That is not far from hore." "Thoro may be time, " sho said hopo n- fully. Dn "Some one must steal through the rd lines. * If not shot, ho may accomplish co something. In half an hour I shall be" o "You?" n- "Yes, It I will not trust this only a thread on which your life hangs to any Oh one olso, though I confess,'" ho added as gloomily, "I have no confidonce in it." od "No, colonel, I cannot nooopt this ds from you. You are the commander hore W - and are till that stands betwoon imo and death. You must remain hero and send 1I a ossengor." or "Who would I daro intrust with such in a message?" u. "Sond for the man who captured me, m Corporal Ratigan. Lot him boar tho as nossago." at 'lo?' ud The colonel looked at her a moment, on as if to question why this man should ug be so trusted, but her eyes woro lower - ed. Ho know there was a secret which u- it did not become him to pry into. oh "I will send him, If he can bo found n- at oinco. If not, I will go myself. And if sk the mission fails" od The words were not finished, for lie 1s well know how precious time was, and turning from the room and the houso ic- strodo rapidly toward his tent. od Ho had gone but a dozen pacos before ,y. he hoard some one call. 10 "Colonl 1" Ho did not hear. The call was re ko peatod. "Colonoll" ok A man approached him, whom in the 'as darkness he did not recognize. in "Is there no hopo, colonel?" the man )r. asked in a choked voice. ik, "Who are you?" tot "The man who captured her," point ing to the house. "Oi'll never draw sa ber again." "Corporal Ratigan?" lie "The same. " "This is fortunate. Come with mo." no Tho two started togoehor to a thickot ug wherein they would neither be observed tat nor heard. >th "Oi'mu hangin round, yo see, coloual. . "s OiII away from camp without leave. Oi mo hop0 they'll shoot me for a desortor." Colonel Maynard did not speak till they reached the thioket. Thon, turn ied ing and facing Ratigan, lie said car es. nestly: , I "You would liko to save her, would 01- you not01" lie, "God knows I would." 0st "Thon go to the picket line and get elf through unobserved if possible. Go to Ringold and find a Confederate oflloer 3so -Cameron Fitz Hugh, if lio is there. Tell him that his sistor is condened to be shot at sunrise tomorrow morning. on Say that Colonel Mark Maynard sends him this information, that ho may uso " whatever influenco ho possesses-tako any measures he may consider honor 3o, able-to save her. Tell him, " the colo 21, nel lowered his voice, "that I offored -o, to attempt to do so, taking ruin upon s myself, but she would not accept the lie sacrifice. Go; there is no time to lose. lE0 When the 5an riseis. it will be too late." on "Oh, colonel, " cried the man in usi agony, "there is so little time!" of ,"Got It is not yet 10 o'clock. We od have six hours. " The corporal was moving away when tthe colonol stopped him. to "You will need the countersign. " Ratigan returned, and the colonel aswhispered It In his ear, "Carnifax d Ferry." ___ rio at CHAPTER XVII. at Te RATIGiAN'S MIssION. Toextreme left of the Army of the ,Cumberland, fromi which Corporal Rat Sigan started to go through the lines, was held only by cavalry and mounted infantry, anid these widely separauted. arThere was noregular, picket line such to fronting each other whore the different branches of tho service aro represoucod In one continuous line. Consequently tfthe corporal had a far bettor ohanice to got through than under ordinary cir cumnstancos. Passi ng over the Pea Vine ridge, he ad( descended the other side sloping to a small stream called Pea Vine crook. It was essential that lhe slip through be b-tween the Union vodettos unseen, for if observed lie would lie taken for ai do sorter and either shot or soint in toi the , headquairtoi's of his regiment. The ve dettos wore principally on the roads, Hand the corporal, believing that they oer wbo looking for an enemy ont routes a ovrwich cavalry could best advance, mselected one least -advantagoous fomr a horse to follow. Whorever lie coulJd ,find a thick clump of trees or low is growth, a knoll, a ravine, indocod any 1thing diflicult for a horse to pass, lhe would go over or through It. Now ho mt would stop to listen for sonme sound suoh as a horse is liable to make, and now m0 would steal on his hands and knees or erawl ont his belly over sonmc aminonce where, if lie should standl upright, his body wo'uld miako a silhonatte against kthe skcy. On crossing a bit, of level mn gromid lhe suddenly heard a horse's "splutter." lie was near a clump of bushes in which lie lost no time in con coalinig himnself. A cavalryman redo by ywithini 50 foot of him, walking his horse slowly, the butt of his carbine resting oni his right log, and In a posi 'tion to lhe used readily. ie was patrol 'lng a beat. Itatigan waited till lie had a gonoe past, then darted onward to troes awhich, from their irregular line, lie 1judged grew beside the creek. Ie was Inot dlisappointed and was soon standing in shallow water, resting for a few of mintutes under a low banik. c' [TO DR CONTINUED.] ur (1, Th~)e no womlan is the0 one who av is jut of ago. OLD KAINTUCKY STORIES. Home lumorous ilts of Bright Word Painting. "When I give out that I would preach at the head o' Trace fork," said Rev. Lemuttel Penrod the other (ily, "my friends all up an' tole me I'd never git a congregashun. They sed thar wuz never a rope of savin' grace made stout enough to drag them 'at' natives to the fear uv the spirit. "But I knowed better. Although you may think I wuz city born, an' have wore out the backs uv many coats against college walls, hits al] 1 r mis tealce. I wuz born and fotehed up in the mountains. I know ye don't. be live hit. hit looks unreasona bb', but, suit, I'm 0r self-made m1an. I edercat ed iyse'f. I hain't got. nobody tit the Lord an' myself ter thank fitur the work I hev done, stil. "This Is goin' er little out in the brush from the road I started on. but what I want ter'splain iz thet. I knowed the people. I Wtz born anong 'emii, an I know 'cm through al' through. "What did I do ter git tie 6irowd? That's what I'm swingin' er rmound to. Wall, suh, I got me a spring wagini' an set six four-gallon jugs in the back part uv it. Every house I'd pass on the way tor preachin' grounds I'd lift up it jug an' pretend ter be drinkin'. Then I'd set down the jug, lift up met' voice an' shout: 'Come all ye thet famish an' thrist fer the blessed spitrit ter the head o' Injun, and ye shall be filled!' The whole family, an' all their visitors, wud take arter my wagin. I hop' re peatin' this dose in front uv every house, an' when I got ter -the place for preachin' I had the biggest gatherin' thet ever hed been seen in thet neck of the woods. A revival begun at, once. Forty souls war brought tor Christ, an' only one man killed durin' that blessed weekl" I was stopping for the night on Chris ty creek, in Carter couinty. The "ole man an' woman, six "gals," four "boys" (all grown), three hands and myself made a setni-eircle about a great, cav ernous firoplace filled with roaring hickory and beech logs. One great, strapping young giant sit with his left shoulder against, one jamb rack, while his sister Moll braced her right against the other. They faced each other, and I saw then frequently exchange smiling glances which they well understood. They were holding a wordless conversation, and I expect it related to my very self-important self. Finally the young tman drew in his outstretched legs, making his big boot heels scrape harshly on the earth and putnehont floor as he did so. 1e stretched out his long arms, like wings, yawned and rose ip. lie then erooked a long, dark-complexioned index fingei toward me and said: "I want ter see ye outside a minit stranger." I went out with hitn. Little shiver played hide and seek up and down in spinal colutn as I stood, in frightene4 perplexity, below this tower of mutiscl and brawn. What could ie want? M.1 blood? Or a drink frotm a flask I hat in my pocket? lie kept ic int sis pense several iniuutes-mtany mitntes to mne then. Then he drew in a de1: inspiration and said: "Stranger, don't ye want ter imarry my sister Moll?" "Why-I-er don't utn(lerstan(. What do you meican'?" "WII, hit's jist this er wtay: Moll's bound ter marry, that's all ther iz erbout it. Site's the best field hand on thte place, bitt site swar's site wvoni't never strike another lick hat'. So we's all workin' tot' git lier satisfied. I thought Sim Stadey wuzs goin' ter' take hem', but he went to log-trollin', soon after they wuzi ingaged, an' beat ever man titer liften at er htanspike. 'That got his name up, an' ever' girl in the county was ar'ter him. That give him the big head, an' he dropped Moll 0ou1 an' married Sal Bodkins for' her good looks an' two cows. "Then Ben Taylor an' her made at contract. They wutz jist er' bout tor hitcht wheni his uncle diedi ant' left lima two good houses. That sttarted all thec gals int the counity arter him. Beckt Latimer, whio had jist raised the best four acres of terbacketr to be found on the crick, an' hatd two of the biggest feather beds in thte county, took er' no tion to him. Moll witz left out In the snowv again. This~ kind em' thing keeps huappenin' with lier time an' timec agin. Shte talked iiv hangin' herself, bitt I tole her' ter' hold up er' while longer, that if site eouldn't gif, a man tright bIg, stout, ant'devilishm-likce Tom Stacy or Bill Latiter-thtat some little war ty, bowlegged ctuss, better thtan ntuth in', would come er' long some timeo an' pluck her off'. Anl' now, stranger, if you watnt a wife that can raise mor'e corn titan any tian you can sctare up, just clinch yersel f ter Moll. I knuow she'll take ye. I cud see it itn hetr eye; besides, you've got adur'ned good look in' hoss."-Josepht Noel Johnason, in Cincinnati Ttribtune. wny sto Stat)Iea n'Im.t When ox-Congressman 'Thomnas was circuit judge a case was on tr'iai before him wherein 'Toam Mason was charged with stabbing Amos 'lTick. ~Judge l'. A. Cole, of Maysville, was cotmmton wvealthi's attorney. Mason had te'stifled In chief in is o'vn defense, wvhen .Judge Cole, ott cross-examti nation, aisked: "Mason, hadnt't you and Amos 'fTuck always been goodh frientds?" ''We'd bin frienuds-n-teither' one of us was very good." ''You were dr'inkig at thte timet of the difliculty?" ''No: he'd bitn a little while before.5 "lie htad tr'eated you'?" "Yes, tin' dad gosted mean tool" "Now, tell this jury just why you stabbed him." "Wal, stah, it wuz jist for this rea son I cut him 'cause I didn't have ne shtootin' Irons hanidyl" -Clncinati Tribune. "Well, old man, how Is business?" "Blooming," said thle tmantufacturer of sporting goods. "I have just received an order for four nmillion pairs of sprinting shoes for the Ohtinese army.' -Idianapolis Journal. --Bohemia Is so called because it was settled by te Bioli, a tribo of Gher DEER ARE FOND OF TOBACCO. The Only Bit of Information Prof. oil more Got from Hawthorne. Prof. J. II. Gilmore says: "It was my privilege to meet Hawthorne at the White mountains. He was there with i Pierce and Loring and Spofford, and I 1 saw considerable of him. I shall never forget the whimsical appearance of the mai as Pierce was trying to get him to go into the parlor of the hotel. He i was quite averse to it. "There were clever people there I from all over the United States who had heard of him, and were proud of ( him, but he did not want to mingle t with then at all. Pierce insisted upon it, and lie complied, and after five min- t uites he made his escape, and I found I iii out on the veranda smoking r a cigar. He did not want to I make friends, apparently, hut lie mnade an exception in my favor. I had been spending several c summers there, and I knew the wood craft very thoroughly, and he fouii I out that lie could get from in the in formation he wanted. "lie would ask me a question and my 1 reply would be followed by anothri question: 'Why?' For instance, lie asked me, 'Which way would you lish a trout stream?' I said: 'Down stream.' Then he asked me why. I was commi peled to answer that a trout when wounded runs up the stream, and that if I were fishing down the stream lie would disturb the trout below. Oni one occasion I referred to the fact that the grain of the wood of a certain tree was twisted. At first lie questioned tihe fact and asked: 'What malces you think so?' I said to him: 'If you will go with me to the woodpile I will show that it is so.' I thus satisfied him of the fact, but, as to the reason for it, I could only give a theory that it was caused by the winds. T think that while he was there he found out all I know, and I found out very little from him. There was one thing that he knew that I did find out. "One day we were looking at a pet fawn. lie said: 'Do you know that every animal of the deer kind is nat- i urally fond of tobacco?' I was taken 1 all aback, because I had been taught that only man and a certain loathsome green worm, the vilest thing the Crea tor made, would touch tobacco. To illustrate the matter to me he put his hand into his pocket, for he not only emoked, but chewed, took out a piece of tobacco, and handed it to the fe wn, I and she ate it as though she liked it, I and while I was waiting to see her fall I down dead she was nosing around l-lawthorne's pocket for some more to. bacco."-Chicago Times. . -LULd FOR JILT.D MEJ watr onr tto V.-, t -h : I liccepted an invitationi the otlh- day to dine with a frien Indt a clu i t hat he assured mi was unlike, in S-m it. sjpects, any othe. eluib in the worl, j says a New York corresponden t, of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Wo wvent to Twenty-ninth street liadt( entered a building that was not material 1' dif. ferent in appearance from a thousand other housca in town that are used aF4 residences by the well to - do. The menu cards and the servants' buttons were marked by IL neat monogram of the letters "J. C." My companion set tled himself in an easy chair, and pro ceeded to explain. "This club," lie said, "owes existence I to the whim of a very rich mana who hmmas hardly turned thirty years. lie wias en gaged. The lady was wvealt hy3, we'(ll connected and moved In the samae social circles that ho d1id. 11(1 was rich enough to satisfy any reaso~nale wom an. Moreover, hin character was be yond reproach. "Perhaps he was a little cold in his wooing. I don't know. ie did not kcnowv what defeat maeant. l'erhaps lie unconsciously took it for granted that any wvomnan must find him all sufficient, and that it would be unnecessary, even uinbecoming, to ply the ordiniary lover's arts that are generally believed to be so fetching with the fair sex. At all events, the young lady one( (lay gave him to plainly 'understand that he wouldn't do. She returned his pres. onts-I don't suppose he had ever- writ ten her a love letter, so she couldn't re turn any burning l iterafture-and told him to apply elsewhere for a wife. Con siderably stunned, he could only ex claim: "Jilted! Ijilted I" lie bought this house at first simply with the idea of living in it, but one day ho chanced across a friend who had had a similar experience with the fair sex, anid, after comparing notes, they deccided to live together to pursue the samie line of' campaign in society; that is, to make themselves as interesting as possible to women, but never on any provocation to marry. Biefore long they hear-d of another acqulainitanlce whose engagement had been broknb the lady, and they took hxim n So, little by little, the affair has grown to its presenlt p~roportionls, a smiall, but sc bet and contented club."a "And the initials J. C. macan, the-" "Jilted club, exactly. Ever'y member 1 must have been jilted, and e.very mema ber is supposed to enter society freelyc and play for hearts-to take them, but never to surrender his own. In the F event of his getting entangled and en- e terinig upon a new engagement his I memxbership lapses at once."3 --Unme or the most conspicuous land- t marks, or, rather, snowmarks, in the whole of the arctic regions is the red d snowbanks discovered near Cape Yorkc, ~ Greenland, by Capt. John Ross in the ~ yecar 1818. For miles and miles the ~ hills are covered with snow that is as red as thoughl it had been saturated with blood. Lieut. Greeley, who visit ed that region while on his famous arctic expedition, muieroscopically ex amined blood-stained cliffs and reports the color due to a minute organism which he calls protococcus nivalis. --It has lonug been pointed out by ex. ports that French newspapers and bookq will, owing to the inferior quali ty of the paper on which they are printed, lMterally turn to dust in much less than a century, so that public libraAes bid fair to become literary cemeoteries. This is the reason why the budget committee proposes to have one hundred 00pios of the Jour nal Official printed daily on what is called Duatch.paper, to insure preseryma. Mion. NANT WHAT THEY CAN'T GET. Iow a Certain Littlo Ilunmni Weakness AfTects the Furniturn Trade. "John," said a furniture salesman, tho other day, to the mover whom lie had mnoned, "this bedroom set is sold. mut it is not to be delivered just yet, Move it out of the salesrool at once md store it somhewiere until I want it." "What's the use of moving it until you iend It up to me?" asked tie purchaser, dly. "Why don't you leave it where it s?"P The salesman, says a New York ex ihange, uttered ia queer little laugh ,nd said: "It is evident that you were never in lie furniture business, or you would ot asc that question. If I sh(ould iark that set 'sold' and leave it hero ii the salesroom in plain sight it would robably lose us several good sales." "Ilow so?" asked the purchaser, with n unbelieving loolc. "It illustrates a universal weakness of mian nature," laughed the salesman. 'Everybody wants what he can't get, md there is nothing quite so attractive o the average buyer as a piece of fur iture that somebody else has bought eforo he came around. If I left that )edroomi set out nirknlced 'sold' ha1lf a Iozen lersons woul say before night that it, was exactly t he set they watited, ind when they lieard there were no llplicates they woultd fuis-s around en viously and nothing else in the estab Lishment would satisfy I hem. I''ventually theY u 'oddbi -o <T d's contentedly and buy ekewlwre, though the chances are that, if twe wer nito 'sold' tag on the set n'onle of the'mi would givo it more than a iassiig irlance, while a fair proporti on of them would purchase other sets. It is a lit "to human weakness, that is all." So arises one of the tricks of the rado. When a dealer sells a piece of urniture of which lie has no duplicates to hustles it out of the salesroom as [niekly is he Canl, lest it, lose him other rade. But whenlIm h sells a piece of urniture of which lie hms (uplicates le puts Ia lIg ".sold" tag on it aind eaves it in open sight, as long is possi >le for a bait to others. VIERCHANTS AND CRAF T GUILDS L Sort of Tratdes Union That Existed In the Twelfth Century. During the twelfth century merchant ruilds arose in all the towns of impor ance in England, aind in the next cen ury a further development of town ifo took place in the rise of craft guilds. l'heso associations were composed of ,ho artisans engaged in a cer uain industry in a particular town. By the growth of popula tion, it is evident, that when the merchant guilds lad attained their first century there would be a consid erable number of personis dwelling in the town who would not he eligiblo to membership of the guild eithier its land holders or as the heirs of guildsmen. Many of these would be shilled inl some Pursuit or calling; aind naturlly they would adopt the best mecanus of secur ing their rights and proleeting their in terests by taik ing olliloll aic ion against the rest of the commimulity. The earliest era ft gutiIls were those )f the weavors and fulilers of woolen -loth, says a writ (r inl the Wes.t minst er [1eview. The guild of bakers is nearly is old, and that of the leather dressers, >r corvesars, dates from about the samo >eriod. At first there was at struggle )etween the merlihait, guilds and the raft guilds, as theu 01n body naturallyI trove to retain its umoniopohy of the overnmnt of the town andi the other mdeavored to share in It's mnicipal privileges. But the circumstances of she time were such as to quick ty unite the two bodies In a coim mnon resistaeo to the tyraniny of the sovereign power, or of the great feudal lords. In turn, the mionarclh found it good policy to' foster the towns, both with the object of developing their wealth, and so of acquiring a somurco of -ovenue for himself, as w~ell as of bring ng into existene a factor to counter abance the overgrown power of the A FIGHT TO THE DEATH. Tow Two Warriora Iu the Interior of Africa Settled Their Love Aflalrs. Even in the Interior of South A fricam ealousy will induce mien to fight. If wo Matabele walrrIors ofi'er the samo lumber of cows to the father of at bellb for her possession, ams are resortedi to Lo decidoe the superiority of omne or the ther, and one of the combatants is Lusually killed in the conltest. One of M~aj. von Wissmann's ofileers accident al Ly witnessed such a duel and described it as follows: "TIoward sundown while restingj near tn immenso bowider of the 'ligogo Irift' we were suddenly' disturbed fromu deep by yelling and a noiso0 (f clashing Irmns. Looking up I saw three Zulus in mping around and hela boriung each) >thler with thin sticks. I ashked my orvant Tom what was thle matter. Ihe eplied this was a duel for ai woman. Jp~on sign of the umpire, who watched ho fray, motionless, the sticks were hanged for clubs, and another set-to vith this formidable weapon followed. uldc'enly another sign wias given, the hubs were thrown away and both raW a different directions. About thirty ards from the former position both nrned and lifted the assagais, throw ig them at each other. One of the ulus had approached our hiding place, tehind the bowlder, so that I could al sost touch him. Just as he lifted hhI pear for a second throw his adver ary's assagal hit him in the breast, Vithout a sound he collapsed. The 'ther--the victor-returned to the kraal o fetch the woman, now his." rubnt'y 01 Attntion. Little Boy--That watch you gave me loesn't keep good time. Father--Perhaps you forgot to wind it. Little Boy-Forgot to wind it? W'y I wind it forty times a day.--oodo News. The Vegetarian and the Lady. "Meat-eating makes one irritable and unreasonable. It is a savage--" "What do I eare?" "Besides, it is fatal to beauty, wast lng, as it does, the-"